Poet, born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was first a teacher, then a journalist. His lyrics, which in the Civil War (18615) gave powerful aid to the Southern cause, include Maryland, My Maryland, Stonewall Jackson, and There's Life in the Old Land Yet.
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James Ryder Randall (born January 1, 1839 at Baltimore, Maryland, United States;
He is most remembered for writing the poem Maryland, My Maryland, which is also the reason for his being called the "Poet Laureate of the Lost Cause". It became a war hymn of the Confederacy war hymn after the poem's words were set to music during the Civil War by Jennie Cary, a member of a prominent Maryland and Virginia family.
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